Marijuana in the City

Tuesday, June 16, 2015

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Concerning the so-called “medical marijuana store” our City Planning Commission just approved in the Ontare Plaza: The sale and distribution of marijuana is a federal crime, subject to property attachment, jail, and penalties. The sale and distribution of a drug not approved by the FDA to be used for medical purposes is also a federal crime. The claimed “medical problems” can be resolved by FDA-approved drugs and by medical treatment.

Does the City Council consent to the City Planning Commissions actions, and if so, do the councilmembers accept full liability as to “illegality” on behalf of the city and its citizens and taxpayers? Do the owners and tenants of Ontare Center desire and accept liability respecting an illegal enterprise as a tenant? Does the city fully comprehend our present city drug problem?

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Has this guy been living under a rock the last few years?? If not, I hope they move under one and stay there. What an authoritarian whacko.

Cannabis is completely legal in two states and is being sold and distributed to anybody over the age of 21 who wants it in those states.

What kind of insane politician is going to stick their career on the line and go arresting sick people? 80%+ of the US population wants medical marijuana legal.

"The claimed “medical problems” can be resolved by FDA-approved drugs and by medical treatment."

That is 100% completely false - in fact it is the opposite - a lot of the claimed "medical problems" cited by the establishment to sell big pharma drugs can largely be treated more safely and with greater efficacy with cannabis.

This guy is going to be really embarrassed as the tide on cannabis prohibition turns on him further. But I wouldn't be surprised if they were dead by then, it is hard to believe anybody under the age of 80 who isn't senile with extreme dementia still agrees with cannabis prohibition.

Where's this guy's safety concerns and duty to community every time a bar or liquor store opens up. (but, but but... the federal government says alcohol consumption is ok! Who'd run the country if we locked all the drunks up?!?)What a loser! imagine what kind of world we'd live in if we'd just accepted the federal government is always right about our rights.

You'd have to be living under a rock not to see the hundreds of studies and articles regarding marijuana and it's benefits. The biggest benefit of all is it's ability to open people's eyes to the fact that our federal government is ran by a bunch of freaking losers! Freaking losers who will jump on the pot train if it means getting elected.

We should all use our vote to see that happen. Get some real promises for change instead of Obama's bunk dope!

The city shut down the Compassion Center on DeLaVina becuase the operator stopped using the front door during DEA raids; the dispensary that Stephen Hosea, Director of Cottage Hospital Clinical Care Stephen Hosea MD referred to as an irreplacable asset to the community - a CPA (grad. degree) owner that the city referred to as a bookkeeper.I don't know what's going on with Joe Allen and the city, but he's an insider-a member of the local cabal, who respects corrupt local government. I don't know that he has any interest in medical cannabis - maybe he does, but I've known a couple of people who hired him for cannabis defense cases and replaced him with other attorneys because they couldn't tell whether he was working for them or the DA..He has an edge over previous dispensary owners - I doubt SBPD will try extortion as it did with others. I think approving a dispensary in a strip mall where parking is so tight that 3 businesses already keep signs in parking spaces reserving them for 1 customer each is a conscious attempt to generate a negative reaction to a dispensary; a rerun of 2009-2010.

I could probably post links to 1000 US patents for medicinal cannabis compounds that include peer-reviewed journal citations on their ability to treat or cure various medical problems and people still wouldn't be able to connect the dots and figure out that cannabis arrests are big business for law enforcement and the prison-industrial complex.

"Where's this guy's safety concerns and duty to community every time a bar or liquor store opens up. Yep, it's is just a matter of which sins are socially acceptable and which are not. And we already tried Prohibition. People are determined to be self destructive even when they know that it has been well-established that 80% of health care costs are attributable to smoking, drinking, and overeating. So it is pretty clear how individual can minimize their own health care costs. What I find funny is that people who want to get stoned recreationally use medicinal benefits as their rationale. Might as well sell Oxycontin with the party favors, then. Being stoned or drunk or high, as common occurrences as these are, are decidedly NOT normal states for the human body. It is mind-boggling why people would choose anything which interferes with normal brain and nervous function, except for treatment of illness. and if medicinal, implies a time when hopefully the body recovers and the medicine is not longer necessary. Of course, some people have chronic conditions and more's the pity for them.